Danish Sign Language family

Danish Sign Language Family
Ethnicity: Diverse
Deaf populations
Geographic
distribution:
Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Madagascar
Linguistic classification:

French Sign

  • Danish Sign Language Family
Glottolog: dani1289  (Danish Sign)[1]
norw1261  (Norwegian Sign)[2]

The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language (including Malagasy Sign Language) and Icelandic Sign Language. It itself is a sub-language family within the larger French Sign Language family.[3]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Danish Sign". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Norwegian Sign". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Brita Bergman & Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, 2010. Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries. In Brentari, ed., Sign Languages. Cambridge University Press.
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